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Dead certainty : the death penalty and the problem of judgment
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- Creator
- Jennifer L. Culbert
- Format
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- Language
- English
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- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- 235 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780804757454, 0804757453, 9780804757461, 0804757461
- OCLC
- ocn159919410
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-222) and index.
- Judgment and metaphysics : American capital punishment jurisprudence and Friedrich Nietzsche's history of an error -- The promise of reliability and the twin objectives of the capital punishment system -- The consolation of common sense in the regulation of capital punishment -- The cockcrow of positivism : "normal" culpability in capital punishment jurisprudence -- The impact of Payne : the return of sense to capital punishment jurisprudence -- The end of error : DNA technology and the decision not to decide in capital cases -- The experience of judgment